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0in'><div style='margin-top:11.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>By Dr. Andreas Matheus</span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Elected member of the OGC Architecture Board</span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Member of OGC Technical Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Editor of OGC Draft Implementation Specification “OpenGIS Geospatial eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (GeoXACML)”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><br><br> <o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width=423 valign=top style='width:317.25pt;padding:0in 18.75pt 7.5pt 0in'><div><div><p><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Many different types of high quality and up-to-date geospatial information are available from different providers. Often, Intranet solutions exist where trusted users can access information with very few access constraints. In contrast, making information available to users outside of a trusted environment requires the implementation of many security requirements of which Access Control is paramount.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>When implementing access control systems, a challenge exists in enabling access rights that are highly dependent on many different things. Therefore, it is usually a good idea to separate the implementation and the configuration of the access control system. 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